Pepe Deluxé: Spare Time Machine. It's a tad more self-indulgent than Queen of the Wave, so it took me several more listens to wrap my head around it. But now that I have, it's great.
Between the Wu Tang album that is scheduled to be released in 88 years and the sudden Kendrick Lamar album announcement it's been a weird week for hip-hop
The beat is just uninspired enough to be bad but not uninspired enough to be boring, the lyrics are the most generic angry-white-kid trash ever and the music video's like a collage of early 2000s music video cliches.
It's like it's the most meticulously crafted shitty song ever. It has every bad song trope ever associated with it and I'm having a hard time believing that it wasn't deliberate.
today i listened to the new song by nickelback. it's really bizarre. i can imagine it: somebody finally shows chad kroeger the song 'moves like jagger'. he sits in silence for a few moments when the song finishes, stunned, slowly taking off his mirrored shades, and announcing portentously: "everybody... i've got it... ive finally got it... Nickelback's New Direction"
and now here it is. an enthralling disco-funk monstrosity with lyrics like 'funky little monkey, twisted trickster/everybody wants to be the sister's mister', and a video where chad dresses up in a suit and does his best to look like robin thicke. theyve even brought in a pound-shop rihanna. it's incredible
I keep on getting "Rock Star" by Nickelback mixed up with "All Star" by Smash Mouth.
Which is sad because one is associated with a Canadian who is loathed by everyone for having a bloated monstrosity of a career that should have died years ago and the other is "All Star" by Smash Mouth
I keep on getting "Rock Star" by Nickelback mixed up with "All Star" by Smash Mouth.
Which is sad because one is associated with a Canadian who is loathed by everyone for having a bloated monstrosity of a career that should have died years ago and the other is "All Star" by Smash Mouth
It is a good album and deals with a lot of very large issues.
I didn't like it as much as GKMC. It's not really experimental but it's a heavy listen, and I don't know how many of these tracks I'm going to come back to.
It is a good album and deals with a lot of very large issues.
I didn't like it as much as GKMC. It's not really experimental but it's a heavy listen, and I don't know how many of these tracks I'm going to come back to.
i found it a pretty dense and uncompromising album. 'a heavy listen' is accurate. but i mean all of that in a mostly positive way
i did feel though sometimes the jazzy influences intruded too much though. a lot of the tracks on it sprawled out in a way which diluted their power a little, and occasionally got infected with a kind of jazzy widdliness, the same thing that put me off You're Dead! last year. maybe it was a little self-indulgent for me - you're always gonna get that with uncompromising albums like this one tho - but still i found the album was at its best when it was a bit tauter, a bit more reined in, the best tracks were the ones like blacker the berry and king kunta. they just had way more punch
props to him for a really bold and interesting album, anyhow, i liked it mostly.
This is probably super-lame of me, but I love love love Elton John's voice and most of his music.
What's weird is that I don't like a lot of his most famous songs: Candle In The Wind, Tiny Dancer, and I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues I could do without.
This is probably super-lame of me, but I love love love Elton John's voice and most of his music.
What's weird is that I don't like a lot of his most famous songs: Candle In The Wind, Tiny Dancer, and I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues I could do without.
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(The other Jane)
that's about all i have to say
1. Legowelt has a bandcamp
2. This album is really, really good
i like the kinda electro but ambient thing it has going on, and it reminds me of a more toned down BOC in places
(The other Jane)
and now here it is. an enthralling disco-funk monstrosity with lyrics like 'funky little monkey, twisted trickster/everybody wants to be the sister's mister', and a video where chad dresses up in a suit and does his best to look like robin thicke. theyve even brought in a pound-shop rihanna. it's incredible
there are some v good songs on it though
(The other Jane)
feeling extremely old now
his music is beautiful and perfect
in its vocal style and composition it actually reminds me a lot of madonna
i did feel though sometimes the jazzy influences intruded too much though. a lot of the tracks on it sprawled out in a way which diluted their power a little, and occasionally got infected with a kind of jazzy widdliness, the same thing that put me off You're Dead! last year. maybe it was a little self-indulgent for me - you're always gonna get that with uncompromising albums like this one tho - but still i found the album was at its best when it was a bit tauter, a bit more reined in, the best tracks were the ones like blacker the berry and king kunta. they just had way more punch
props to him for a really bold and interesting album, anyhow, i liked it mostly.
What's weird is that I don't like a lot of his most famous songs: Candle In The Wind, Tiny Dancer, and I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues I could do without.
The quirkier John is, the better to me.